On January 19, 2006, NASA launched a spacecraft to Pluto!
New Horizons is a spacecraft about the size of a grand piano, and it became the first spacecraft to fly by Pluto. It launched from Cape Canaveral on an Atlas FIVE rocket and was the fastest spacecraft ever launched. The trip to Pluto took nine years, and it was worth the wait. New Horizons took the first close-up pictures of Pluto, and for the first time, the world saw that Pluto has an enormous heart. It also saw huge, steep mountains and icy volcanoes. After the flyby, New Horizons set sail for a distant icy rock called MU69.
New Horizons is a spacecraft about the size of a grand piano, and it became the first spacecraft to fly by Pluto. It launched from Cape Canaveral on an Atlas FIVE rocket and was the fastest spacecraft ever launched. The trip to Pluto took nine years, and it was worth the wait. New Horizons took the first close-up pictures of Pluto, and for the first time, the world saw that Pluto has an enormous heart. It also saw huge, steep mountains and icy volcanoes. After the flyby, New Horizons set sail for a distant icy rock called MU69.
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00:00On this day, in space.
00:04On January 19th, 2006, NASA launched a spacecraft to Pluto.
00:09New Horizons is a spacecraft about the size of a grand piano,
00:12and it became the first spacecraft to fly by Pluto.
00:15It launched from Cape Canaveral on an Atlas V rocket,
00:17and was the fastest spacecraft ever launched.
00:20The trip to Pluto took nine years, and it was worth the wait.
00:24New Horizons took the first close-up pictures of Pluto,
00:27and for the first time, the world saw that Pluto has an enormous heart.
00:31It also saw huge, steep mountains and icy volcanoes.
00:35After the flyby, New Horizons set sail for a distant icy rock called MU69.
00:40And that's what happened on this day in space.
00:43NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology